A new film explores the complexities of an extraordinary commander.
By Sara E. Wilson
A legacy of loss from three wars is chronicled by the American Wars in Asia Project.
By Rachel Galvin
Guided only by stars and the sea, a thousand years ago these explorers created an empire of ocean.
By Lisa Rogers
Some unusual maps trace the progress of the soul and the arc of life.
By Robin Herbst
Reflections on the approach of an "improper medievalist" to feasting, the body, and death.
By Fred Paxton
Romance, poetry, and protest literature are rescued from obscurity.
How a manuscript that was nearly lost still speaks to us.
By Robert F. Yeager
Excavations beneath Florence's cathedral reveal a church for a saint that never was.
By Franklin Toker
Early Icelanders turned feuding into an art form.
By Anna Maria Gillis
An eleventh-century nun with attitude becomes the subject of a Maryland film.
By Erin Erickson
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
By Kevin Mahnken
A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
By Danny Heitman
The Blue Humanities
In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.
By John R. Gillis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?
By By Danny Heitman